From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ted White in Jan 05 Asimov's magazine
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:57:54 -0500
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From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ted White in Jan 05 Asimov's magazine

> > twhite8 at cox.net 11/6/04 9:05:37 PM >>>
> >
[...]
> >
> >I believe Roger's piece is also the introduction to THE BEST FROM
> XERO, a
> >recent hardcover book which I noticed Mike had copies of last night.
>
> A nice piece of marketing on the part of Tachyon Publications
> <http://www.tachyonpublications.com/> publisher of The Best of Xero.
>
> Roger Ebert's intro is quite fascinating and well worth picking up
> either Asimov's, or better yet, the actual book.  Discover what all of
> this fannishness is about.
>
> The author photo used in the book is amusing:
>
> "Dick and Pat Lupoff as Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel at the World
> Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, 1960. Dick's costume was made
> from a set of long-johns; Pat's from a T-shirt. Both wore pillow cases
> for capes."

Well, the costumes looked better than that description might imply.
However, the Worldcon in 1960 wasn't in Chicago.  It was in Pittsburgh.
And Sylvia and I shared a room with the Lupoffs at that convention -- and
got to see their costumes close up, as it were.

--Ted White